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Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, Zhao Lu - Dice and Gods on the Silk Road, Inbunden

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Del 7 i serien Prognostication in History

Dice and Gods on the Silk Road

Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context

Av Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, Zhao Lu

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What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist “Divination of Maheśvara” within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at least the 4th century BCE. Simultaneously, the authors track this specific method of dice divination across the Silk Road and into ancient India through a detailed study of the material culture, poetics, and ritual processes of dice divination in Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian contexts. The result is an extended meditation on the unpredictable movements of gods, dice, divination books, and divination users across the various languages, cultures, and religions of the Silk Road.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-06-03
  • Mått: 155 x 235 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 716 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Prognostication in History
  • Antal sidor: 340
  • Förlag: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004461208
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Brandon Dotson, D.Phil. (2007), University of Oxford, is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University. He has published various books and articles on early Tibet and on Dunhuang manuscripts, including The Old Tibetan Annals (VÖAW, 2009).Constance A. Cook, Ph.D. (1990), University of California, Berkeley, is NIH Distinguished Professor at Lehigh University. She has published a number of books and articles on ancient China, including Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao (Harvard, 2017).Zhao Lu, Ph.D. (2013), University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at New York University Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at New York University. He is the author of In Pursuit of the Great Peace (SUNY, 2019).

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"Equally comparative in its cross- cultural evaluation and philological in its textual analysis, this volume offers a fascinating insight into not only Chinese divination practices but also the broader field of divination practices in general." - Joseph Chadwin, Religious Studies Review, 47/4 (2021).

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